Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Head almost buried in the keyboard , he worried at the chords , arpeggios and flourishes , producing a big yet unforced sound and a sense of re-creative excitement and scope , not wholly matched by the orchestra . |
| 2 | There will be unfortunate ( even disastrous ) consequences in the real world if the message is not properly understood by the recipient . |
| 3 | This use of HLCAs is , in fact , available but not widely publicised by the Agriculture Department with much discretion being left to individual officers , a situation which MAFF has stated will be rectified . |
| 4 | The purpose of the law , which was not widely practised by the time of Jesus , was to preserve both a family line and the inheritance of family possessions and property . |
| 5 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 6 | However , human motivation is complex : people are not entirely driven by the desire for money or to do as little in the job as they can get away with . |
| 7 | An alert cat has fully-opened eyes and this is the condition that is always maintained in the presence of strangers , who are not entirely trusted by the cat . |
| 8 | Natural killer activity , however , was not greatly influenced by the addition of PSL . |
| 9 | But other political theories , notably those of Pareto and Mosca , suggest that there is a ruling elite that is not necessarily characterized by the possession of economic resources . |
| 10 | Alleged perpetrators usually denied allegations but even when admission was forthcoming full personal responsibility for events was not necessarily accepted by the perpetrator who might allege that he was provoked . |
| 11 | This explains why the extent of the use of crack is not necessarily indicated by the scale of seizures . |
| 12 | The fact that Chafe ( 1977 ) has suggested that information concerning agent and recipient is not necessarily stored by the individual in a specific arm is perhaps fortuitous in our comparison of English with BSL . |
| 13 | The problem is not necessarily caused by the unwillingness of local authorities . |
| 14 | Thus , transition to L-forms is not necessarily followed by a halt in the release of endotoxins . |
| 15 | However , the act of dedicating a portrait and describing its subject on an accompanying inscription was not necessarily initiated by the emperor . |
| 16 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 17 | This was not the arbiter-president that Debré and the other drafters of the constitution had anticipated , but rather a ruling president who was not necessarily constrained by the letter of the constitution ( as he showed in his frequent recourse to referenda and in his willingness to replace prime ministers at his , rather than the assembly 's , pleasure ) . |
| 18 | Not many developing countries would now see the activities of TNCs as impinging on their sovereignty … there are clear indications of a new pragmatic approach which comes from the growing belief that developing countries can negotiate agreements with TNCs in which the benefits of foreign investments are not necessarily outweighed by the cost ’ ( UNCTC , 1988a : p. 314 ) . |
| 19 | However , communication with users and clients is not necessarily helped by the use of formalism . |
| 20 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 21 | Thus , being confronted with such a wealth of cinematic work by , for , and about women of all stripes , the viewer is likely to feel more , not less deprived of such material , more , not less constrained by the dominance of banal mainstream cinema and TV images . |
| 22 | He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them . |
| 23 | If the object is to determine whether a puritan spirituality was conducive to scientific activity , it would surely be necessary to take into account the far larger body of puritans who were not so enthralled by the book of nature . |
| 24 | Diana was not so enthused by the architecture , which Charles delighted in , but there was no doubting the warmth of the welcome — they were greeted everywhere as ‘ Carlo e De ’ — and the sheer beauty of the place and the warm weather lifted everyone 's spirits after an English winter . |
| 25 | First , a significant element of research is not only funded by the government , or quasi-governmental agencies , but also organized on a customer-contract basis . |
| 26 | The time taken to perform a search is not only influenced by the indexing language and system , however , but also by system response times , search strategies that are available and the style of the dialogue in a computer-based system . |
| 27 | The effect of NO synthase inhibition was not only indicated by an increase in the maximal response induced by CCK-8 but also by a prolonged duration of the response . |
| 28 | The amorous contortions of Sex , the rock star 's naughty book , were not only stocked by the department store , but sold out instantly , while the volume on the great American photographer published by Jonathan Cape was withdrawn after protests by dozens of shocked customers . |
| 29 | Schools were started in the monasteries , for Charles proclaimed that ‘ Men of God should not only live by the rule and dwell in holy conversation , but should devote themselves to literary meditations , each according to his ability , that they may be able to give themselves to the duty of teaching others . ’ |
| 30 | For Juliet Warren the comparison between her previous and present work is not merely provoked by the interview . |